America -> Italy

Meteor Shower Coral
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• The mysterious photo of a purple flower that receives 78 million hits each day
  "[E]very day, millions of phones are sending traffic to a beautiful photograph of a flower, but no one is able to actually witness its beauty. It’s like a weird version of the butterfly effect — except for throwaway code."
• Webamp · Winamp 2 in your browser
  It still whips the llama's ass.
• Lobster Shell Patterns May Lead To Stronger Concrete, Researchers Say
  🎶Rock lobster!
• The people wanted Lego bike lanes, and Lego is finally listening
  "There is actually no bigger city on earth to start that revolution than Lego City."
• The World’s Best Tennis Players Are Serving Balls Into Hotel Mattresses
  "His three-hour workouts, which he starts after lunch, sound vaguely like something I would never make it through at a CrossFit gym I would never attend."
• Vivaldi's Four Seasons, remade for a post-climate change world
  Interesting merger of data sonification and dystopoian remixing of a classic.
• Why We Can’t Stop Longing for the Good Old Days
  Spoiler: there never were good old days.
• The secret history of messages etched into records
  Not all deadwax is a tabula rasa.
• How Poland Uses Clams To Control Its Water Supply
  I can confirm that clams are finicky as hell about water quality. This is a smart idea.
• Booting from a vinyl record
  The warm crackle of DOS.